Certified Legal Nurse Consultants – Check Your Biases at the Door
Every medical-related case you analyze as a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant holds a truth of the facts – i.e., exactly what transpired. Yet we weren’t there, so there is something standing between that truth and the outcome of the case whether it settles or goes to trial. That something is perception. Perception is not truth, it is interpretation.
Before you even concern yourself with how the jury is going to react to the case, you have to monitor your own perceptions to ensure they don’t distort the truth of your interpretations. Distort the truth and you distort the advice you give your attorney-clients. Everything that follows – positions, themes, strategies, decisions – is then distorted too and the truth retreats into the undiscovered distance.
Check yourself and your biases at the CLNC® door and you’ll have a better shot at getting to the truth and justice of the case.
I’m Just Sayin’
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*The opinions and statements made by Vickie Milazzo, the founder of Medical-Legal Consulting Institute, Inc. are based on her experiences and expertise, should not be applied beyond the specific context provided, and do not guaranty or project actual results. Vickie Milazzo is no longer involved in the operations or management of the business, but is involved as an independent education consultant.
